This survey of more than 18,000 academics by the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB), found that the proportion of respondents doing commercial consultancy has more than halved from 15 per cent to 7 per cent.

This report updates the analysis of the largest ever survey of UK academic engagement with external organisations, which was undertaken by the Centre for Business Research in 2008/9 and which covered the period 2005-2008. This original web-based survey attracted over 22,000 responses and the latest survey has received 18,177 responses - these are the two largest research and knowledge exchange surveys ever completed of a national Higher Education System.